Collection of fungi

Curator: Ilinka Ćetković, MSc.Museum adviser

Collection of fungi has been formed in 2002. So far around 1000 specimens from the teritory of Montenegro have been collected and prepared, mainly from Ljubišnja, Lovćen, Bjelasica and Durmitor, and a few from Adriatic coast. Major part of material has been taxonomically determined. There are about 1100 species of fungi described from Montenegro. The most represented are Basidiomycota with about 870 species, and others belongs to Ascomycota and Myxomycota.